Precis: Three general elections were held for the Northern Ireland Parliament during the 1920s. The 1921 and 1925 elections were contested using proportional representation, whereas the 1929 elec­ tions used the "first-past-the-post system". This paper analyses how the change in the electoral system reversed the trend towards political plurality reflected in the 1925 election results, and facil...

For results from a randomised trial to be relevant to practice it is important that the needs of the end users of the trial, health care professionals, policymakers and patients are considered. Key aspects of a trial need to reflect how the intervention would be implemented. PRECIS-2 is an innovative way to display information about a trial’s design, using a wheel with 9 spokes or domains, grap...

Conclusion: consider changing "highlights the potential usefulness" of PRECIS-2. Authors: We have revised this section of the abstract completely. Introduction P1 line 38 Spelling Loudon instead of Ludon Authors: This is now addressed P2 line 53, [24] reference to Cochrane review Authors: This is now addressed Method p1 2.1 Line 13 need to insert references [13] [14] Authors: Addressed Method P...

BACKGROUND The Pragmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS) tool is intended to be used in the design phase of trials to help investigative teams design trials in-line with their purpose. Our team applied this tool to an ongoing trial (BLISTER) to determine whether the initial suggestion among some team members that the trial could be described as largely pragmatic was the consens...

This study tests the feasibility of applying the pragmatic-explanatory continuum indicator summary (version "PRECIS-2") tool to randomized controlled trials of Chinese herbal medicine. A search was conducted to identify potentially eligible randomized controlled trials. Using the PRECIS-2 tool, assessment of trials was performed independently by 2 evaluators using a scale of 1-5 for each criter...

BACKGROUND There continues to be debate about what constitutes a pragmatic trial and how it is distinguished from more traditional explanatory trials. The NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaborative Project, which includes five trials and a coordinating unit, has adopted the Pragmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS-2) instrument. The purpose of the study was to collect PRECIS-2 ratings ...

BACKGROUND The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory (NIH Collaboratory) seeks to produce generalizable knowledge about the conduct of pragmatic research in health systems. This analysis applied the PRECIS-2 pragmatic trial criteria to five NIH Collaboratory pragmatic trials to better understand 1) the pragmatic aspects of the design and implementation o...

We present the CR-precis structure, that is a general-purpose, deterministic and sub-linear data structure for summarizing update data streams. The CR-precis structure yields the first deterministic sub-linear space/time algorithms for answering a variety of fundamental queries over update streams, such as, (a) point queries, (b) range queries, (c) finding approximate frequent items, (d) findin...

We present the CR-precis structure, that is a general-purpose, deterministic and sub-linear data structure for summarizing update data streams. The CR-precis structure yields the first deterministic sub-linear space/time algorithms for update streams for answering a variety of fundamental stream queries, such as, (a) point queries, (b) range queries, (c) finding approximate frequent items, (d) ...